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Not Like a Native Speaker: On Languaging as a Postcolonial ...

Not Like a Native Speaker: On Languaging as a Postcolonial ...

Rey Chow

This unfinished state of affairs, this lingering historical experience of being caught among unequal languages, is the subject of Rey Chow's book.
Entanglements, Or Transmedial Thinking about Capture

Entanglements, Or Transmedial Thinking about Capture

Rey Chow

This follow-up volume to our book The Age of the World Target collects interconnected entangled essays of literary and cultural theorist Rey Chow.
Ethics After Idealism: Theory, Culture, Ethnicity, Reading

Ethics After Idealism: Theory, Culture, Ethnicity, Reading

Rey Chow

In Ethics after Idealism, Rey Chow explores once again the issue of cultural otherness that has been central to her work.
Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films: ...

Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films: ...

Rey Chow

Rey Chow explores these questions through nine contemporary Chinese directors (Chen Kaige, Wong Kar-wai, Zhang Yimou, Ann Hui, Peter Chan, Wayne Wang, Ang Lee, Li Yang, and Tsai Ming-liang) whose accomplishments have become historic events ...
The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, ...

The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, ...

Rey Chow

For Rey Chow, the world has, in the age of atomic bombs, become a world target, to be attacked once it is identified, or so global geopolitics, dominated by the United States since the end of the Second World War, seems repeatedly to ...
Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary ...

Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary ...

Rey Chow

"... this is no doctrinaire tract but rather a concerted attempt to look at important cultural problems from a fresh perspective.... Chow's book is an excellent example of its type.
The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism

The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Rey Chow

To radically reconceptualize the ways ethnicity functions in capitalist society, Chow proposes that it be analyzed in conjunction with Max Weber's famous theory about the protestant work ethic, especially in terms of the economic and ...
Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and ...

Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and ...

Rey Chow

Chow situates contemporary Chinese film within the broad context of Chinese history and culture, giving readers a glimpse of the unique shared identity that characterizes the current crop of outstanding filmmakers, such as Chen Kaige and ...
The Avant-Garde and the Popular in Modern China: Tian Han ...

The Avant-Garde and the Popular in Modern China: Tian Han ...

Liang Luo

... Jianhua Chen, Liana Chen, Ya-chen Chen, Chen Yongguo, Likkwan Cheung, Robert Chi, Eileen Cheng-yin Chow, Rey Chow, Joscha Chung, Claire Conceison, Verena Coney, Jacqueline Couti, Annika Culver, Kirk A. Denton, Xinyu Dong, ...
The Rey Chow Reader

The Rey Chow Reader

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For all those pursuing transnational cultural theory and cultural studies, this book is an essential resource.
Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of ...

Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of ...

Rey Chow

Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, "The Difficulty of Being Radical: The Discipline of Film Studies and the Postcolonial World Order," Japan in the World 1 Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto's enumeration of the problematic elements of the national cinema paradigm in ...
Wu Ming Exposes Ignorance -- A Dialogue between Master Sheng ...

Wu Ming Exposes Ignorance -- A Dialogue between Master Sheng ...

Master Sheng Yen

A Dialoguebetween Master Sheng Yen and Jet Li Author: Venerable Chan Master Sheng Yen and Jet Li Translator: Agnes Chow Editors: Kenneth Chow Jessica Chow Michael Connors ScottGregoryGloriaWong Joyce Wong Publisher: Sheng ...
Jorge el curioso visita el acuario/Curious George at the ...

Jorge el curioso visita el acuario/Curious George at the ...

H. A. Rey

H. A. Rey. Curious George at the Aquarium Jorge el curioso visita el acuario By R. P. Anderson Escrito por R. P. Anderson Illustrated in the style of H. A. Rey by Anna Grossnickle Hines Ilustrado en el estilo de H. A. Rey por Anna Grossnickle  ...
Curious George Goes to a Movie

Curious George Goes to a Movie

H. A. Rey

Written and illustrated in the style of Margret and H. A. Rey, the books will appear in paperback (8 x 8") and hardcover editions and will feature the art of Vipah Interactive, the animators of HMI's Curious George CD-ROMs.
Curious George and the Firefighters

Curious George and the Firefighters

H. A. Rey

It’s the formula for success for preschoolers—Curious George and fire trucks! Curious George and the Firefighters is a story based on H. A. and Margret Rey’s popular primate and painted in the original watercolor and charcoal style.
David: La Verdadera Historia Del Rey De Israel

David: La Verdadera Historia Del Rey De Israel

Jonathan Kirsch

Entretejiendo textos biblicos con siglos de interpretacion y de exegesis, asi como los estudios biblicos modernos y sorprendentes descubrimientos de la arqueologia, Jonathan Kirsch da vida al rey David.con extraordinaria frescura, intimidad ...
Monarch of All I Survey: Bechuanaland Diaries, 1929-1937

Monarch of All I Survey: Bechuanaland Diaries, 1929-1937

Charles Rey

Illustrated with black and white photographs.
Curious George's Dream (Read-aloud)

Curious George's Dream (Read-aloud)

H. A. Rey

After a long day at the fair George is frustrated.
Curious George Gets a Medal

Curious George Gets a Medal

H. A. Rey

After repeatedly disastrous efforts to get himself out of trouble, George ends up being the first monkey in space.
Anybody at Home?

Anybody at Home?

H. A. Rey

Short verses ask the reader to identify various "homes" and the animals and objects that live in them. Pages fold out to reveal the illustrated answers.
Billy's Picture

Billy's Picture

H. A. Rey

Is it a puppygoose? A porcuphant? What will Billy do? From the creators of Curious George, Spotty, and Pretzel, this story about art and individuality is back in print after many years.

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